Day 35. November 27, 2006
Movement 3. Jesus Christs
Lecture 17. Jesus in the Age of Revolution: The Sixties (Part 1)
The 1950s gave way to the turbulent 1960s as shockwaves from demographic and economic booms and political superpower status reverberated through American society. Kennedy's presidency and assassination, the Vietnam War, and the televised social soul searching that events of the decade provoked set the stage for Jesus' appearance in new roles in American public life. His most important roles involved support of the promise of equality in America first made in the Declaration of Independence and repeated in the 14th Amendment and elsewhere. In service of this promised equality the civil rights movement resurrected Moses-Jesus who had helped ameliorate slave culture a century before. Dr. Martin Luther King took Moses-Jesus to the streets in peaceful, persistent and fruitful protest of segregation and discrimination. Jesus would no longer be slave of the white man. Like all Americans he would be free at last - even free to be black.